The Wreck

THE WRECK

• Publishing Company:

  PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

• Imprint:

  JONATHAN CAPE

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

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• Publication Date:

  09/04/2026

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• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  FICTION

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• Summary:

  An astute and brutal portrait of a friendship, a possible utopia and an ultimate betrayal.​

  The Wreck is a novel about class and confidence, love and envy, community and solitude, and the messy tangle of thread which connects them all.​

  Thrown together at university in 1973, Charlotte and Francesca are unlikely friends. Prickly and serious Charlotte often finds herself an onlooker to Fran’s sociable ease and confidence, caught between admiration, envy and disdain.​

  Despite their differences, they click immediately, drawn together by a love of art and culture and a particularly dry sense of humour. But after graduation they fall out of sync and out of touch – until two decades later, when Charlotte receives a letter from Fran which will change everything…